Live shot from downtown Portland. Canadian reinforcements have arrived. #PortlandStrong

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

AI is a tool for class war from above. It's for wage depression. It's for surveilling and disciplining workers. We have a whole book on AI and class, too www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai

The chapbooks my students have made over the years are really incredible. ❤️ lizahl.com/2025/09/24/t...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

OK is everyone else getting their job back

I wrote a little something about generative AI, plagiarism, and why detection and surveillance are not the answers.

Oh no DHS is upset that people are saying mean things about ICE. Im sure this won’t generate a Streisand Effect or anything. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

Two incarcerated writers with first-hand experience of solitary confinement just wrote a book about what they went through. We asked you to submit questions you have about solitary, for these writers to answer you from prison. Here's the resulting article. It's powerful, and I hope you read it.

I saw that an acquaintance on FedBook has personally gotten over 55 people to cancel their Disney subscriptions. This is a homebound person and she found her lane and is absolutely kicking ass at the moment. People are doing things.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

This resonates for me here on the downslope of a decently long teaching career: "To me a teacher is someone that has just been asking the questions longer." --Prentis Hemphill on the @deanspade.bsky.social's marvelous podcast, Love in a F*cked Up World. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Like many folks out there, my old friend and former student is in dire need of support. Every little bit will make a difference for them. gofund.me/a30e52a8a

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

look Charlie Kirk started, maintained, & promoted turning point usa’s professor watchlist I’ve been on it for over a decade and until this year I was the *only* UVM professor on it which means his life’s work = my death threats

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

We live in a country where the official policy is that race can’t be considered for giving people access to education but is the primary consideration for caging and disappearing people. The official policy.

If you don't even know where to start, check out the #DidThisToday hashtag where folks post some of the practical things they're doing to make the world a little better and push back against fascism. Lots of great, easy things to do there.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.

W O W www.havehashad.com/hadposts/poe...

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

If you saw my earlier posts with this same intro header, Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago, they have become the latest Public Collectors zine. I finished it this morning. It's a single folded sheet and I made 425 copies. Get one free on 8/31, 11-6 at the Hairpin Arts Center, at #ZineMercado

I sincerely believe we would understand him better were his surname Brown or Jackson. The Kennedy moniker still confers prestige (gag). But he is a basic male disordered-eating eugenics-pipeline health influencer promoted beyond all his abilities or sense.

"Don't just TRACK but GUIDE" gives away the entire intent now. As ubiquitous surveillance creates control and AI adds the manipulation. bsky.app/profile/hype...

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

if you don't know the word "epistemicide," today's a great day to learn. when human teachers can't acknowledge trans people exist & the AFT is spinning up AI for schools that can't be "woke," that's a whole generation of trans kids growing up in the dark & i can tell you some will not survive it.

Here is the growing "AI Resisters/Refusers in Academia" starter pack! If you are a resister/refuser & wish to be added to this list, please respond w/ a 👍🏽 or a ✔, and I'll add you in. Please share with friends & colleagues interested in learning more about the AI resistance! go.bsky.app/DVvnBGh

This is my biweekly reminder that we are in the “taxation w/o representation” & “armed Redcoats in major cities” stages in the lead-up to the first-ish American Revolution. (Not including Bacon’s Rebellion.) We’ve got 8 months before Lexington & Concord. PS Despite my jaunty tone, I’m scared.

“The bikes, as one onlooker noted, are reminders of the people who go in — but who aren't lucky enough to come out. ‘It's like a tombstone,’ said Joe Williams, who volunteers outside the courthouse connecting immigrants with legal support in their uphill battle against the Trump administration”

Full on fascism.

That’s a dystopia, Ezra. You’re describing a dystopia.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

It is confusing because it isn’t true. Not in a way that should be confusing, anyway. Data center jobs don’t offset ai related job losses, provide few long term jobs for tax base, & also data centers are ecological disasters www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n...

So, Research Assistant (AI feature, Primo) is censoring the following topics: Genocide in Palestine Gaza war Rwandan genocide Armenian genocide Genocides across the world History of genocides lynching lynching in the united states lynchings in the united states january 6 covid covid data COVID-19”

This thread sums up much of what is wrong with journalism today. TL;DR: too many journalists think defaulting to white/cishet = being "unbiased" and impartial; and that considering non-white, non-cishet perspectives is "biased" activism. And that, folks, is how systemic discrimination works.

On the bright side, it's tomato cobbler season!

Tried out Grammarly's AI grade predictor. Didn't want to use actual student work, so I had ChatGPT write a paper for one of my assignments and gave that to Grammarly. Grammarly promises to use publicly available info about your instructor to predict what they will say. The advice was *not* what I /1

Great episode with @prisonculture.bsky.social! Loving this podcast. It's pushing (thoughtfully, generously) against a number of my uncomfortable learning/thinking spots.

The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

Updates from the faculty union at the University of Oregon since my original post. Also, apologies for a typo in my post: it’s UO not OU for the University of Oregon. newsletter.uauoregon.org/after-accept...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.